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The very name, Building the Wyoming We Want implies that we do not HAVE the Wyoming we want and suggests we are unable to “build” it on our own. I disagree. We cherish our family, friends, freedom, and our independent rural way of life. BW3 was started by Governor Freudenthal under the guise of “protecting” the things we hold dear. Last time I checked, we were perfectly able to do that on our own. It is the overreaching regulation and spending of government that threatens the American way of life. Here in Goshen County BW3 is called the High Plains Initiative or HPI. HPI/BW3 is a threat to freedom and an assault on our individual rights, especially regarding private property and the ability to choose how we use our land. The document, which has already been created, invites SMART Growth, Sustainable Development and United Nations Agenda 21 into our county by creating a false statement of public support for these principles. Sustainability invokes government power to enforce activists' views of environmentalism. It seeks to replace farmers', ranchers' and other landowners' concept of stewardship with government-centric control. It merges environmentalism and socialism by government control of land use, food production, housing, transportation, manufacturing, energy rationing and even health care. As a member of the HPI Steering Committee I witnessed firsthand that this is a marketing ploy called the Delphi technique, designed to manipulate the public and bring them to a predetermined “consensus.” It is not a “grass roots” process; rather it has been driven from the top down using the local HPI steering committee as a formality and our good reputations as a front to give credibility to an illegitimate non-profit organization and their undemocratic process. This is a cookie cutter model that is being used by SMART Growth catalysts, such as Envision Utah, nationwide. This is not our plan, it never has been! If you are in agreement, contact your elected officials and “Just say NO” to the BW3/HPI comprehensive land use “recommendation.” Tell them we want BW3/HPI STOPPED, defunded and removed from our County and State without a trace left to haunt us. BW3 asked, so let’s tell them We are Keeping the Wyoming We Have!

To learn about SMART Growth, Sustainable Development, UN Agenda 21; www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/, www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/, www.freedom21.org , www.democratsagainstagenda21.com

Wyoming information www.wyomingwatchdogs.com.

Sincerely,
Cheri Steinmetz